My heart is red, the color of love
The color of lust and passion
My hate is red, the color of blood
The color of desperation.
The skies are blue, the color of calm
The color of endless peace
The ship teeters on the verge of death
Amid the storming blue seas.
Yellow, the color of eternal light
By the dazzling Sun liberated
Yellow, the color of death and decay
Owned by a body cremated.
Close your eyes to the boundless black
A welcome veil of quiet
Close your eyes as your black-clad son
Weeps by the burning pyre.
Green, a shade of prosperity
Of nature, young and serene
A swampy lake, destroyed by fate
Gives off the color green.
A chocolate brown waters my mouth
I smack my lips in yearning
A shrivelled up leaf on the tree beyond
Has slowly begun brown turning.
The page is white, a shade bizarre
Of a bunch of colors born
Yet only seen when the final trace
Of all other shades is gone;
No matter how pretty things may seem
They have an ugly inside-
What textbooks couldn't teach my head
The colors taught my eyes.
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Salt And Ink
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